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Poem by John Heywood


Jack and His Father


“Jack,” (quoth his father), “how shall I ease take?
If I stand, my legs ache; and if I kneel,
My knees ache; if I go, then my feet ache;
If I lie, my back acheth; if I sit I feel
My hips ache; and, lean I never so weel,
My elbows ache.” “Sir,” (quoth Jack), “pain to exile,
Since all these ease not, best ye hang awhile.”



John Heywood


John Heywood's other poems:
  1. Of Holding an Inn
  2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
  3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
  4. A Reward to a Service Man
  5. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!


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